Joe Sherlock describes his moviemaking as a hobby. After a showing of Drifter at the Northwest Comic Fest film festival on August 14, 2015 at Cinebarre, Sherlock talked about the making of the movie.Drifter is about a vagrant who takes up residence in the Blud House, a home with a reputation for people dying. With a realtor trying to sell the property, the bodies start piling up. The drifter goes through seven levels of madness, which actor Bob Olin says he made sure to note on every script page. Because his character has no lines and the scenes of the movie are not shot sequentially, it was important to know what stage he was in during each of the scenes. “The music is almost a character, too,” says Sherlock. “It kind of pulls you in.” Usually, Sherlock composes his music on GarageBand. However, for Drifter, Steve Sessions heard about the project ad wanted to compose the music for it. The house, where the film was shot provided the real estate problems mentioned in the movie, and the realtor in the movie had become a realtor in real life just before the film was shot. Sherlock wanted a movie that had some comedy but held an underlying dread. He took many of the names from his favorite horror film Phantasm, which he says is scary, horrific and quirky.Read the Northwest Comic Fest Friday film festival reviewRead more about Northwest Comic Fest 2015